Yvette Cooper (Pic: The Labour Party/ PA)

Yvette Cooper (Pic: The Labour Party/ PA)

YVETTE COOPER today accuses David Cameron of putting ­bankers before women and children as families bear the brunt of his spending cuts.

She warns women "will get more and more angry" as they see their children lose out while the Prime Minister looks after his friends in the City.

Writing exclusively in the Sunday Mirror, Ms Cooper outlines her fears that cutbacks will have a devastating impact on families in 2012.

The Shadow Women and ­Equalities Minister writes: "It is outrageous that the Government's plans take more from children than from bankers. ­Instead they should introduce Labour's tax on bankers' bonuses to help to support jobs."

She hit out as Mr Cameron faces a ferocious backlash for knighting Tory donor and hedge fund trader Paul ­Ruddock in the New Year's Honours.

Mr Ruddock's firm Lansdowne Partners made £100million from the financial crash by betting that the price of Northern Rock shares would fall.

Ms Cooper urges Mr Cameron to listen more to women in 2012 and put hardworking families' needs first. In a reference to Mr Cameron's infamous plea for a woman Tory MP to "calm down" during Prime Minister's Questions, she warns: "Women won't calm down. They will get more and more angry until the Government changes course."

Mother-of-three Ms Cooper, who is married to Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, also condemns Mr Cameron's "out of touch" pledge to give tax breaks to married couples.

Her attack comes as many Labour activists are tipping her to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader.

Mr Miliband faces a tricky start to the New Year, when he will come under pressure to improve his personal poll ratings against Mr Cameron.